Summary Of My Stroke Of Insight By Jill Bolte Taylor

Who are we? The Ted talk “My stroke of Insight” given by a Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, is about how we have a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere and how we have different perceptions of ourselves because of it. In the right hemisphere people tend to think of themselves as “energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.” Our left brain is responsible for helping us see ourselves as single individuals. In this talk Jill Bolte Taylor asks us an important question, “which side so you choose and when?” She gives us her answer based on her experiences and her understanding of the human brain. I feel that because she shared her personal experience in this talk, the audience really connected to her speech. One way Taylor connects to her audience is by telling her stories and her experiences. Taylor begins her talk by explaining how she got interested in her field of study “I grew up to study the brain because I
She then explains how there are two different hemispheres of the brain and how they function to provide facts and she uses her humorous commentary and her experiences to establish a connection with the audience. Once he achieves this, she asks the audience a question who do we, as an individual, want to be “Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when?” After she asks these questions she presents her answer and says “I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.” This was the underlying message of the talk. Taylor wanted the audience to think about who they are as an individual and what we think we should choose, being an individual or choosing to connect with others and have the “life force power of the